[vdr] Re: recording on almost full hdd

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

apieper@gmx.net wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> the last days my hdd ran almost out of space.
> While recording i got many watchdog-exits and
> fragmented recordings.
> 
> The hdd-space was low, but not too low to store
> the recording (~1.5GB left after finished recording).
> I don't know if this is normal because i never had
> that low free space on hdd before.
> 
> Here are the corresponding part from /var/log/user.log:
> 
> Apr 26 21:37:17 VDR vdr[19508]: recording VDR file to '/mnt/video/vdr.00/Der_Junggeselle/2002-04-26.20.10.50.99.rec/002
> Apr 26 21:43:26 VDR vdr[20282]: low disk space while recording, trying to remove a deleted recording...
> Apr 26 21:43:28 VDR vdr[20282]: ...no deleted recording found, trying to delete an old recording...
> Apr 26 21:43:29 VDR vdr[20282]: ...no old recording found, giving up
> Apr 26 21:43:29 VDR vdr[20282]: confirm: Platte beinahe voll!
> Apr 26 21:43:56 VDR vdr[20282]: PANIC: watchdog timer expired - exiting!
> ...restart
> 
> Apr 26 21:53:28 VDR vdr[15154]: low disk space while recording, trying to remove a deleted recording...
> Apr 26 21:53:30 VDR vdr[15154]: ...no deleted recording found, trying to delete an old recording...
> Apr 26 21:53:31 VDR vdr[15154]: ...no old recording found, giving up
> Apr 26 21:53:31 VDR vdr[15154]: confirm: Platte beinahe voll!
> Apr 26 21:53:58 VDR vdr[15154]: PANIC: watchdog timer expired - exiting!
> ...restart
> 
> and so on.
> 
> As you can see this occurs every 10 minutes.
> What can i do aside from buying a bigger hdd?

The "Low disk space!" message is presented for up to 30 seconds.
If you have set the watchdog timer (option '-w') to a value that
is too low, it will hit during presentation of this message.

I suggest not to set the watchdog timer to values below 60 seconds.

Klaus
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